This building is considered one of the masterpieces of architecture as represent the summary of all assumptions implemented during the first half of the twentieth century and where the famous phrase of the Mies van der Rohe “less is more” takes on true sense. read more …

When KaDeWe (short of “Kaufhaus des Westens”, the “Department Store of the West”) was opened on 1907 Berlin was the capital of the Prussian Empire, a cosmopolitan and crowded city with 800.000 inhabitants, full of museums, theaters and auditoriums, provided with a notable infrastructure it was a rich, proud and happy city. read more …